Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Feeding on fruit; fruit-eating.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Fruit-eating; frugivorous; specifically, of or pertaining to the genus of pigeons of which. Carpophaga is the type; to the marsupial Carpophaga.
Wiktionary
- adj. Living on fruits; fruit-eating.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. feeding on fruit
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek (Wiktionary)
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Carp
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ablative absolute, ablaut, abulia, acephalous, ACTH, adit, adumbrate, agrapha, aleatory, ailanthus, alfresco, algolagnia and 482 more...
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To Learn
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You Are What You Eat, Part II
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